2007/08/27
Sanjiva uses the wrong word when pointing out distributed systems development is hard.
I thought that RESTafarians used to say that WS-* was all too complicated and REST is so easy and beautiful. ;-).
No RESTafarian I know ever said REST development (in general) was easy, only that it was simple, where “simple” refers both to the architectural property of simplicity induced by some of REST’s constraints as well as to the general notion that using any reasonably constraining architectural style reduces the number of decisions a user of that style has to make. “Easy” would mean that this second notion of “simple” implied that all the remaining choices were trivial, which is clearly not the case. Yes, distributed systems are hard. But their styles needn’t be complex.
I’ll give him “beautiful” though 8-)
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